Barrefors Selected as NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Recipient

By NU Athletic Communications

| 08/07/2013

Nebraska All-American Bjorn Barrefors was selected as an NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipient. Barrefors is one 174 student-athletes nationwide to earn a postgraduate scholarship during the 2012-13 season.

Barrefors is a senior three-time captain combined event athlete from Stockholm, Sweden. A member of two conference championship teams, he is a six-time All-American and two-time conference champion who has also broken the Nebraska school records in the men’s heptathlon and decathlon. Barrefors most recently finished fourth in the decathlon at the 2013 Big Ten Outdoor Championships, while he finished first in 2012 with a record-breaking performance. At the NCAA Championships in 2012, he came in fourth in the heptathlon and eighth in the decathlon. Barrefors has finished in the top 15 in every NCAA Championship he has competed in, while totaling a top-10 finish in all conference championships.

He carries a 3.75 GPA in computer science, with a minor in mathematics and physics. He was selected as the 2012-13 University of Nebraska Male Student Athlete of the Year across all sports and is four-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, the first across all sports in Nebraska history. He was also a recipient of the Big Ten Medal of Honor, the NCAA Elite 88 Academic Award during the 2010 indoor track and field season and is a three-time honoree of the USTFCCCA All-Academic team. Barrefors is a three-time academic All-Conference award winner and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. He is also a two-year member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, serving as president during the 2010-11 school year.